Chase away the winter blues with this yummy recipe from Brown Family Farm!
Slow-Cooked Stewing Hen
1 stewing hen
2 medium onions, skin-on, quartered
2 Tbs sea salt
15-20 whole peppercorns
1 splash raw cider vinegar
Water to fill crock slow-cooker to halfway
Quarter whole onion, leaving skin on. Put onions in bottom of slow cooker. Cut up hen, if desired, or if necessary to fit into crockpot. Place stewing hen in crock pot. Sprinkle salt, peppercorns and cider vinegar into crockpot. Fill crockpot approximately half way full. Meat should be falling from the bone after 10-11 hours on high.
Use tongs to remove chicken to plate. After cooling, pick meat from carcass and return bones, skin and fat to crockpot. Use meat for chicken salad, curries, soups, burritos or enchiladas.